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| The day the global economy collapses, it will be the end of Man |
| Adapted for the Internet from: Why God Doesn't Exist |
- Most people treat extinction as a philosophical issue, a matter of opinion. “Surely, if extinction ever
happens, it will occur after I’m dead. So who cares?” The worldly wisdom is that extinction always
happens to someone else, to some unfortunate generation sometime in the indefinite future. It happens
on another planet, but never to you! In fact, it never happens at all:
- " We are at the very beginning of time for the human race... there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can,
learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." R. Feynman
We verify this widespread perception all the time in books and movies. A catastrophe occurs, and
everyone dies except that young, handsome Adam, his gorgeous Eve, and a cameraman who just
happened to be around. The cameraman is necessary to film the steamy scene where the human race is
restarted from scratch. I don’t think that you will ever see a movie where everyone, I mean absolutely
everyone, including the director, hopelessly dies. People just refuse to believe in the extinction of Man.
So I have to concede that mine is not a very popular guess.
I can only share with you my intuition. It seems to me like most people alive today will witness the end of
our species and be an integral participant. When I say the end of our species, I mean everyone, including
the guy with the camera. We will end up like T-Rex, a fossil here, another there. Let’s see why.
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